France is to launch a six-year renovation of the Louvre in Paris, enlarging the world's most-visited museum to make room for the huge crowds who now cram inside the palace on the banks of the Seine.

Doc has confirmed about 40 black-backed gulls have died from what's believed to be avian botulism at the Waitarakao Washdyke Lagoon, near Timaru. Half a world away from home, jobless and cashless on ...

Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis has joined the government voices urging more mining, but the opposition says it is a ...

More general practices are closing their books, with over a third of doctors turning away new patients last year. In Southland, the Gore Health Centre has been running a waitlist since October.

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered "catastrophic" damage from a marine heatwave with some of its iconic coral reduced to rubble. Anne Munro was diagnosed shortly before Christmas and will be stepping ...